/dev/urandom

[Brian Harvell]

On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Max Shaposhnikov wrote:

> on solaris7/sparc this device doesn't exists
> 
> i can use EGD but he very big (perl script!) - in memory it take about
> 4mb! apache use the same!
> 
> why ssh1.27 doesn't requre /dev/urandom on solaris?
> 
> what alternatives exists?
> 

You can install the SUNWski package. It comes with the sun webserver on the
SEAS cd. It's still not a kernel random like linux though. It has a stand
alone daemon like the perl package. I think it's a little lighter though.

   PKGINST:  SUNWski
      NAME:  SKI 1.0 Software (User Package)
  CATEGORY:  application
      ARCH:  sparc
   VERSION:  1.0,REV=1998.09.24.00.00
   BASEDIR:  /
    VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems
      DESC:  SKI Software (User Package)
    PSTAMP:  mcm-ultra1>Fri Dec  4 14:23:39 PST 1998
  INSTDATE:  Jan 07 2000 16:32
    VSTOCK:  258-6422-05
   HOTLINE:  Please contact your local service provider
    STATUS:  completely installed
     FILES:     36 installed pathnames
                10 shared pathnames
                 4 linked files
                11 directories
                16 executables
              3173 blocks used (approx)


Brian

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